Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aircraft landed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage for talks with President Trump Friday. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Trump would be meeting the Russian leader on the tarmac.

All eyes will be the Alaskan city that has provided a world stage for presidents and leaders in recent history

As Putin steps onto this patch of US soil later today, he will surely be hoping to strike a better deal than his country’s imperial leaders, who ruled Alaska as “Russian America” for nearly 70 years before selling it to the US in 1867 for just $7.2m.

The Kremlin shared a video shot inside Putin’s presidential aircraft during the return flight to Russia after the Anchorage meeting. On Aug. 15, 2025,

The high-stakes summit at the Anchorage Air Force base comes as the U.S. seeks a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Russian journalists who arrived in Alaska last night as part of Vladimir Putin’s press pool said they were disappointed when they saw their accommodations. Instead of hotel rooms, many slept on beds inside a sprawling sports stadium.